Welcome to the Bank Street Children's Book Committee's (CBC) Searchable Best Books List, a tool designed to help educators, families, librarians, and others access developmentally appropriate and engaging books for young readers (ages birth - 18).
Our online Searchable Best Books List draws from the committee's annual Best Children's Books of the Year-beginning with the list of books published in 2000-with each featuring more than 600 high-quality titles for young readers.
To share feedback about the tool, please feel free to email bookcom@bankstreet.edu. To learn more about the CBC, visit https://www.bankstreet.edu/cbc/.
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Sharon Creech
Ages: 9+
Published: 2020
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers/Joanna Cotler Books
ISBN: 978-0-06257074-1
Keywords: teaching ,writing, creativity, imagination, transformation, family, relationships
As 11-year-old Gina and her classmates struggle with the question, "Who are you?" their imaginative teacher's writing experiments causes them to begin to define their worlds and relationships.